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REED MARTIN |
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Reed Martin (Performer/Writer/Managing Partner) was drawn to theatre when he realized that performing gave him a good excuse to sleep late. Unfortunately his two young sons are early risers. Reed is a native of Sonoma, CA and has graduated from Sonoma Valley High School, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, The Bill Kinnamon School of Professional Umpire Training, and Clown College. Prior to joining the RSC in 1989, he was a clown with Ringling Brothers/Barnum & Bailey Circus where he spent two years frightening children and smelling of elephants. Reed feels strongly that toilet paper should be fed over the top of the roll.
Plays by Reed Martin
All The Great Books (abridged) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Reduced Shakespeare Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22612 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | (written by Martin and Tichenor, with additional material by original cast members Croke and Michael Faulkner). The show is developed at bang.studios in Los Angeles, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and Alabama Shakespeare Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | The Literary Canon explodes as the bad boys of abridgement unleash a brand-new comic outrage on an unsuspecting public. America's best loved comedy troupe takes you on a ninety-eight minute roller-coaster ride through its compact compendium of the world's great books in All The Great Books (abridged). Confused by Confucius? Thoroughly thrown by Thoreau? Wish Swift was swifter? Tennyson tinier? Then buckle up and hop aboard as the three cultural guerrillas of the Reduced Shakespeare Company zip through everything you didn't get around to reading in school. | |||||
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Bible, The: The Complete Word of God (abridged) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jul 1995 | |||||
Company: | Reduced Shakespeare Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66854 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Long, Martin, and Tichenor, with additional material by Croke | |||||
Synopsis: | It's apocalypse now as the three cultural guerrillas of The Reduced Shakespeare Company set their reductive sites on the good book with The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged). Can bolts of lightning be far behind? Yes, it's an affectionate, irreverent roller coaster ride from fig leaves to Final Judgment as the boys tackle the great theological questions: Did Adam and Eve have navels? Did Moses really look like Charlton Heston? And why isn't the word 'phonetic' spelled the way it sounds? Whether you are Catholic or Atheist, Muslim or Jew, Protestant or Purple People Eater, you will be tickled by the RSC's romp through old time religion. Remember. . . Someone is watching. | |||||
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Complete History of America, The (abridged) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Just For Laughs Festival, Montreal | 1993 | ||||
Company: | Reduced Shakespeare Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66855 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | 1993: The RSC premieres its second stage show - The Complete History of America (abridged) (written by Long, Martin, and Tichenor). They perform America at Montreal's Just For Laughs Festival, the American Repertory Theatre, and the Serious Fun Festival at Lincoln Center in New York. Tours of the U.S., Britain, and Israel. | |||||
Synopsis: | From Washington to Watergate, yea verily from the Bering Straits to Baghdad, from New World to New World Order - The Complete History of America (abridged) is a ninety minute rollercoaster ride through the glorious quagmire that is American History, reminding us that it's not the length of your history that matters - it's what you've done with it! The three cultural guerillas of the Reduced Shakespeare Company tackle such controversial questions as: Who really discovered America? Why did Abe Lincoln free the slaves? How many Democrats does it take to screw in a lightbulb? History is normally written by the winners. . . now it's the RSC's turn. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Complete Millennium Musical, The (abridged) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1998 | ||||
Company: | Reduced Shakespeare Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording SW (2004) | doollee no | #66783 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | book and lyrics by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor, music by Nick Graham, additional material by Dee Ryan | |||||
Synopsis: | a thousand years of world history - abridged | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Complete Works of William Shakespeare, The (abridged) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Aug 1987 | |||||
Company: | Reduced Shakespeare Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34763 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | The first, one-hour version of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (written by Winfield, Long & Singer) premieres and the company performs it at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The company thinks that this will be its swan song. Instead, interest in the RSC begins to snowball. Full length show has additional material by Reed Martin | |||||
Synopsis: | All 37 Plays in 97 Minutes! An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard's plays, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) was London's longest-running comedy - 10 years in the West End at the Criterion Theatre - and is NOW ON TOUR! Join these madcap men in tights as they weave their wicked way through all of Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies in one wild ride that will leave you breathless and helpless with laughter. Warning! This show is a high-speed roller-coaster type condensation of all of Shakespeare's plays, and is not recommended for people with heart ailments, bladder problems, inner-ear disorders and/or people inclined to motion sickness. The RSC cannot be held responsible for expectant mothers! | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI Issue 07 Page 354 | |||||
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Complete World of Sports, The (abridged) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2010 | ||||
Company: | Reduced Shakespeare Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66781 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Martin and Tichenor | |||||
Synopsis: | From the earliest cavemen playing 'Neanderthal in the Middle' to your own kid's soccer practice, the entire history of athletic competition will be regurgitated in a tour de france of physical theater, at a level of sophistication and pathos that only the RSC can muster. It'll be a marathon of madness and mayhem as the world's great sporting events are shrunk down to theatrical size. Is Bowling really a sport? What about Poker or Competitive Eating? Which is more boring - Baseball or Cricket? Who invented Curling and Synchronized Swimming and why in the world are they in the Olympics? Can't Tiger Woods demand that the Master's Green Jacket be slightly less green'? | |||||
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Completely Hollywood (abridged) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Aug 2005 | |||||
Company: | Reduced Shakespeare Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57695 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
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Notes: | (written by Martin and Tichenor, additional material by original cast member Dominic Conti) | |||||
Synopsis: | Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the theater . . .the Reduced Shakespeare Company boldly goes where few would dare - Tinseltown! America's 'bad boys of abridgement' take on America's largest cultural and economic export (well, except for weapons) in this seriously silly show biz satire. Get your clapper boards ready! The RSC rummage through the reels and flick through the films in this riotous carnival of the classics. Giving Hollywood more than just a nip and a tuck, they cut through the celluloid to condense the 197 greatest films in Hollywood's over-100 year history into a complete compilation of classic cinematic cliches - plus a few brand new cliches they just made up. | |||||
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Greatest Story Ever Sold | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Reduced Shakespeare Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | written by Martin and Tichenor | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115962 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Martin and Tichenor | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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